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The English Eye the French in North America THE ENGLISH EYE THE FRENCH IN NORTH AMERICA By Lois MULKEARN* T HE French-English dispute which culminated in the French and Indian Wars was as old as the English colonization of North America, and it increased in intensity in direct proportion to the western expansion of those colonies. As early as 1613 the Lord Ambassador of France complained to the English Privy Council "touchinge spoyles and other violences supposed to be committed by His Mates subjects of Great Brittaine upon the subjects of France on the coast of Greenland and Can- nada."1 Captain John Smith in his description of New England written after the voyage of 1614 remarked of the peltry trade: "of Beuers, Otters and Martins, blacke Foxes, and Furres of price, may yeerely be had six or seuen thousand-, and if the trade of the French were preuented, many more: 25,000. this yeere were brought from those northerne parts into France, of which trade we may haue as good part as the French if we take good courses. 2 In 1631 France challenged English right to Virginia by a recapit- ulation of the records of the discoveries of Ribaut and Laudon- niere in Carolina in 1564-66. The English right to Newfoundland they invalidated by citing the discovery of Verazzano in 1523 and Jacques Cartier's voyage up the St. Lawrence River as far as the "Great Sault Saint Louis" in 1535. The French had taken possession of the region around the Great Lakes and the Mississippi and Ohio River valleys. Ac- cording to custom, priests and explorers had erected crosses, at- taching to them the king's coat of arms and a statement of posses- *Mrs. Mulkearn, Librarian of the Darlington Memorial Library, University of Pittsburgh, is editor of the George Mercer Papers and co-author of A Traveler's Guide to Historic Western Pennsylvania, both published by the University of Pittsburgh Press, 1954. 1 Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New Yorl (Albany, 1853-87), III, 2. Hereafter cited N.Y.C.D. 2John Smith, The Generall Historic of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles (London, 1626), p. 213. 316 ENGLISH EYE THE FRENCH IN NORTH AMERICA 317 sion; also, they had built forts and established missions. Although the King of France was pleased with the acquisition of more and more land in the New World, in 1666 he warned Talon not "to embrace too vast a quantity, a portion of which we may perhaps be obliged one day to abandon, to the decrease of his Majesty's reputation and that of his crown." This admonition may have been well founded, for only four years later Talon in a proposal to recover the beaver trade from the west, at the time diverted by the Five Nations to the English and Dutch, remarked that such a check on those Indians "would make the first openings toward Florida across the interior."' With the first acquisition of New York from the Dutch in 1664 the English envisioned an English North America. On July 6, 1666, Governor Nicolls of New York wrote to the Council of Massachusetts. Since he had heard that "His Matie hath author- ized and required yow to reduce Canada to His Maties obedience," Colonel Nicolls wished to inform the Massachusetts governor of the opportune time for "the reduction." The governor had been informed that according to Indian computation 700 Frenchmen were marching on Albany. He remarked that he could not "imagine any reason to the contrary why so faire an advantage against the French, should be let slip, since His Maties directions therein are so positive." By 1673 the English had gained control over all the Dutch possessions which included the Five Nations or Iroquois lands; later the Iroquois reaffirmed this English possession by the Dongan Treaty. The next year the governor "put the Arms of the Duke, now his Maty upon all the Indian Castles near ye Great Lake, and that by their own consent who have submitted to this Government." 4 Always, there were charges and counter- charges by the French and English of infringement upon the rights of the other country. In the beginning the fur trade was of pri- mary interest. Actual possession, of the Ohio Valley by right of settlement came in the eighteenth century. The equilibrium between the two contending powers in North America which should have been established by the Treaty of Neutrality, concluded in November, 1686, did not materialize. By that treaty, France and England were bound to keep peace be- 3N.Y.C.D., IV, 41, 65. 'lbid., III, 120, 363. 318 PENNSYLVANIA HISTORY tween their subjects and "not interfere with the other in his war upon 'wild Indians.' " Since no mention was made of the status of the Five Nations-that they were under British control- France was given a free hand to pursue her war against them and the English were prohibited from interfering in the affair. How- ever, in the conflict the English supplied the Indians with arms and ammunition. Governor Dongan of New York wrote of the affair to the governor in Canada: "Sir, I hope you have a better opinion of me than to think I cannot see as farr as another man, and let me tell Monsr Denonville [the governor] I know what he aims at as well as he does himself and do assure him he shall not obtaine his ends for I will stand by those Indians who have sub- mitted themselves their lands and conquests under the obedience of the King of England to the last . 'tis a very hard thing that all the Countryes a Frenchman walks over in America must belong to Canada." By a warrant issued November 10, 1867, the king vested Governor Dongan with authority to demand of the gover- nor of Canada the release of all Iroquois prisoners. He also in- formed him those tribes were under English jurisdiction and any act of hostility against them was an act of hostility against the English. If the French persisted in "annoying those Indians" the governor was ordered to protect them, even to the extent of levy- ing, arming, and employing all persons residing within New York to resist and withstand the invasion or attempts of the French. The governor was also authorized to erect "Forts, Castles and Platforms" where he needed them.5 With the turn of the century came new English activities. The Earl of Bellomont, royal governor of New York, expressed his views on French expansion. He reported to the English Lords of Trade that the measures recently taken by the king of France would "quickly extend his dominions in this part of the world, further than is consistent with the interest of England." To off- set this expansion the governor suggested that 1,000 regular troops sent to New York and two men-of-war, one each at Boston and New York, would be sufficient help from the mother country. With this assistance Bellomont believed that if another war oc- curred the French could be driven out of Canada. In the same report he suggested that New York should be looked upon as the 'Ibid., 503-504, 513-515. ENGLISH EYE THE FRENCH IN NORTH AMERICA 319 capital province or the "Cittadel" of all the colonies. Although New York did not gain that distinction, it did become foremost in relations between the Indians and the Crown. As late as 1752 the governor of New York complained to Governor Dinwiddie of Virginia that Virginia should not treat with the Six Nations without receiving his permission.' New York, however, was not concerned with the drang nach westen to the upper Ohio Valley so far as settlements were concerned; her interest was the fur trade siphoned from the West through the Six Nations Indians who claimed the region. After almost one hundred years Virginians who had been con- tent in the tidewater region began to move westward. Virginia's first legislative recognition of the region beyond the Blue Ridge was in 1705, when the Assembly passed an act permitting free and open trade with the Indians; also, it provided that, should any- one discover a town or nation of Indians westward of or between the Appalachian Mountains, they would have the sole right to trade with them for fourteen years. Another act of 1705 per- mitted naturalization of aliens and foreigners who had already settled, or would settle, in the colony.7 Governor Alexander Spotswood was responsible for the first organized effort to extend the frontier beyond the Blue Ridge. In 1716 he and other Virginia gentlemen made an Elizabethan Progress over the mountains into the Shenandoah Valley to dis- cover the source of the rivers and to establish favorable trade relations with the Indians, thus checking the rising power of the French. The governor was so pleased with the adventure that he organized the party into a fraternity, the "Knights of the Golden Horse Shoe." Its insignia worn on the breast of the adventurers bore the inscription, Sic juvat transcendere montes (Thus it is a pleasure to cross the mountains).8 The erection of Spotsylvania and Brunswick counties was the outgrowth of Spotswood's exploration. The preamble for the act 'Ibid., IV, 505; New York. Secretary of State, Calendar of Historical Manuscripts, in the Office of the Secretary of State, Albany, N. Y. (Albany, 1866), IT, 602. Virginia. Laws Statutes, etc., The Statutes at Large . of Virginia. edited by W. W. Hening (Richmond, 1809-23), 111, 434, 468-469. 8 Virginia Magazine of History and Biography (Richmond, 1893-date).
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